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Monday, 5 March 2012

'Yes' for Aberdeen's City Garden Project

Image from Aberdeen Garden Cite Project website.

This controversial scheme, in which voters were offered the choice between retaining the historic gardens or opting for the £140m City Garden Project redevelopment, has passed in favour of the latter. With a 52% turnout the result was 45,301 'yes' and 41,175 'no', a majority of 4,126.